Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally . |
| 2 | Rosenthal has rejected a one-year deal to stay at Liverpool but has dismissed the possibility of a move to Turkish club Besiktas , who showed interest last week . |
| 3 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 4 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 5 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 6 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 8 | PAKISTAN spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has struck a three-year deal with Somerset . |
| 9 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 10 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 11 | All in all , Rocastle has gotten a raw deal from Leeds . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 13 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 14 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 15 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 16 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |